There was a corona case in a daycare center in Bavaria.
How they proceeded afterwards caused criticism from parents and employees.
A spokesman for the district office showed understanding.
Forchheim - The fourth Corona * wave is rolling in Germany.
It is therefore not surprising that cases occasionally occur in schools or daycare centers, as is now the case in the Upper Franconian district of Forchheim. * But the regulations that follow after a positive case cause criticism from parents and educators.
Corona case in Forchheim daycare center - health department gives assessment
A scratchy throat and a feeling of sickness.
A person visited a daycare center in the Forchheim district last Tuesday and took a quick test as a precaution.
It turned out: It's Corona.
At the request of those affected, no further information about the person or the facility is given, as
reported by
nordbayern.de
.
What happened after the positive test, however, causes criticism.
But how exactly did it go on?
The Kita management immediately informed the parents whose children were in the affected group.
They were asked to leave the little ones at home, if possible, until further information came from the health department.
On Wednesday, the positive rapid test result was then confirmed by a PCR test *.
Then came the assessment of the health department.
All children with the person in a room were "not necessarily as close contacts (infectious suspicious gem. § 2 no. 7 IfSG) classified." This is a letter that
nordbayern.de
present.
It was recommended that those affected watch out for symptoms for 14 days, adhere to the AHA-L rules and distance themselves from those at risk.
The health department also recommended doing a voluntary PCR test.
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Non-binding Corona recommendations: Parents and daycare employees criticize
But it is precisely such non-binding recommendations that parents and daycare staff criticize.
A mother told the portal that she left her daughter at home immediately after the positive rapid test report.
However, this is now a feat of strength, because overtime and vacation have long been used up.
And there is also a completely different problem: The childhood illness days cannot be used if the child does not have to be officially quarantined.
“The worst thing for us as a family is this non-regulation,” the mother told
nordbayern.de.
“We as a family are always idiots.
If I leave my child at home, I'm the idiot at work.
If I send it to daycare, I'll be the idiot there. "
After the corona case at a Bavarian daycare center, the head of the day-care center criticized: "How can it be ...?"
The woman has already sent an email to the health, social and family ministries explaining the problem. The latter two referred to the responsibility of the Ministry of Health, which is responsible for the quarantine order. The head of the daycare center was also
frustrated
with
nordbayern.de
: “How can it be that in a kindergarten group in which the children cannot of course wear a mask, in which there is no such thing as keeping their distance and in which there are still no air purification devices , should not give any contact persons? "
As a precaution, some parents left their children at home during the week and only brought them back to daycare on Monday (October 11th) - after a negative PCR test.
But not everyone was able to leave their children at home.
On Monday it turned out that one of the children tested at the weekend - without any symptoms - was positive.
However, the child was at home the entire week.
Criticism of daycare after Corona case - district office spokesman can understand displeasure
A spokesman for the district office has meanwhile said that he can understand the displeasure. However, the local health department must adhere to the requirements of the Ministry of Health. And as
nordbayern.de
reports, that simply means: Only those who have direct contact with a corona infected person over a longer period of time have to be in quarantine. For day-care centers this means: only the closest playmates or at school, for example, the person sitting next to you. If the contact was only brief or at a distance, there is therefore no quarantine. The health department must therefore always check in each individual case how long and intensive the contact had been, as the spokesman further
explained
to
nordbayern.de
.
The health department must always weigh up that it can never be made right for everyone.
But
the spokesman also expressed understanding for parents who want to be cautious, but who run into a "care bottleneck" as a result
, to
nordbayern.de
.
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Free tests are no longer possible for everyone
What also causes criticism: Since Monday (October 11th) tests are no longer free for everyone.
Kita employees are also affected by this new regulation.
Because, as
reported by
nordbayern.de
, employees in the care sector are exempt from the obligation to pay, but not the staff of a daycare center.
"If we now have more cases and want to increase safety for ourselves and the children despite the vaccination * and therefore want to do a PCR test, we have to pay for it ourselves," criticized the daycare manager in an interview with the portal.
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